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Capital Southwest (CSWC) Competitors

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$23.17 -0.06 (-0.26%)
Closing price 07/14/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CSWC vs. ARCC, MFIC, NMFC, OCSL, PFLT, SLRC, FSK, MAIN, TSLX, and GBDC

Should you be buying Capital Southwest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Southwest include Ares Capital (ARCC), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), SLR Investment (SLRC), FS KKR Capital (FSK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), and Golub Capital BDC (GBDC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Capital Southwest vs. Its Competitors

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

23.4% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ares Capital has a net margin of 43.50% compared to Capital Southwest's net margin of 34.51%. Capital Southwest's return on equity of 14.40% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Capital Southwest34.51% 14.40% 6.93%
Ares Capital 43.50%11.05%5.25%

Capital Southwest presently has a consensus target price of $23.60, indicating a potential upside of 1.86%. Ares Capital has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.76%. Given Capital Southwest's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Capital Southwest is more favorable than Ares Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Capital Southwest
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Ares Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

Capital Southwest has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Capital Southwest pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Capital Southwest pays out 156.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Southwest has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Capital Southwest is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Ares Capital had 20 more articles in the media than Capital Southwest. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Ares Capital and 4 mentions for Capital Southwest. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Capital Southwest's score of 0.92 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Capital Southwest
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Capital
14 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Southwest. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Southwest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Capital Southwest$108.85M11.43$70.55M$1.4815.66
Ares Capital$2.99B5.31$1.52B$2.0511.15

Summary

Capital Southwest beats Ares Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CSWC vs. The Competition

MetricCapital SouthwestFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.24B$13.65B$12.03B$9.14B
Dividend Yield10.03%5.76%5.54%4.00%
P/E Ratio15.6634.9819.2919.45
Price / Sales11.437.4426.0579.78
Price / Cash10.0116.0818.5527.47
Price / Book1.332.782.295.58
Net Income$70.55M$572.21M$992.75M$252.81M
7 Day Performance1.89%1.64%0.53%2.11%
1 Month Performance12.20%7.12%4.38%11.87%
1 Year Performance-13.99%10.04%538.82%16.61%

Capital Southwest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CSWC
Capital Southwest
2.7733 of 5 stars
$23.17
-0.3%
$23.60
+1.9%
-14.1%$1.24B$108.85M15.6620
ARCC
Ares Capital
3.1182 of 5 stars
$22.33
-0.4%
$22.00
-1.5%
+7.9%$15.50B$2.99B10.892,550Positive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.1977 of 5 stars
$12.69
-0.2%
$14.00
+10.3%
-15.6%$1.18B$301.78M10.23N/APositive News
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
1.9213 of 5 stars
$10.57
-1.2%
$10.67
+0.9%
-13.5%$1.14B$371.67M10.57N/APositive News
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
1.4628 of 5 stars
$13.85
-1.6%
$15.83
+14.3%
-21.9%$1.22B$381.67M106.54N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.58 of 5 stars
$10.47
-0.8%
$10.92
+4.3%
-9.3%$1.04B$84.09M7.48658
SLRC
SLR Investment
3.0708 of 5 stars
$16.20
-1.0%
$15.96
-1.5%
+1.1%$0.00$232.43M10.06N/APositive News
FSK
FS KKR Capital
2.6733 of 5 stars
$21.16
-1.1%
$19.50
-7.8%
+7.3%$0.00$1.72B11.14N/A
MAIN
Main Street Capital
1.5132 of 5 stars
$60.97
-0.3%
$52.80
-13.4%
+23.5%$5.43B$541.03M10.3590
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
2.2435 of 5 stars
$23.94
-1.8%
$22.81
-4.7%
+11.5%$2.25B$482.53M12.67N/A
GBDC
Golub Capital BDC
2.594 of 5 stars
$14.74
-0.2%
$15.50
+5.2%
-3.5%$3.93B$724.68M13.04N/APositive News

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This page (NASDAQ:CSWC) was last updated on 7/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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